Phase Four
Phase Four is here, I hope you're as excited as I am!
The Spreadsheet
Each team has two mods but there are options to add a third one everywhere. Those who modded in the last phase had an advantage, after that I went with people who chose the first answer in the modding poll. We have to have the same number of mods because of the bonus points and two seems enough from where I'm standing but if more than one team of mods tells me they'd like someone else, we can talk about it.
Speaking of modding, I didn't get around to delivering messages from the last phase, sorry, I'll get right on that!
Thanks for the feedback at the end of phase 3!
Couple of notes on things from the poll:
- Several people asked if it was possible to pay more attention to any potential procrastinators when scheduling deadlines for big challenges. Yes, it is! Last phase was a bit awkwardly organized because of the holiday season but hopefully this phase works better for you.
- Thanks for all the notes on gift-giving, keeping them in mind for the next time we do it! Whenever it happens, you'll just have to wait and see.
- The anon meme we included proved what we assumed but still wanted to check - it was a lovely experience but it wouldn't work in a meme form on its own because of its unevenness.
- Puzzleland seems to be a point of disagreement. While some people liked it because challenges were different & we had some less known puzzles, others felt that those unknown puzzles are too hard & time-consuming for the amount of points they are worth. I would be more inclined to go with the first group & keep doing them because skipping a challenge is always an option here and doing 3-4 things over and over can get boring but this phase brings something a little different to puzzleland overall so that will change anyway and for the future we'll consider something along the lines of different point amounts.
- Puzzleland is not the only place that will be a little different this phase. It's good to shake things up a bit every now and then & this phase we're focusing on teamwork a little more.
The Spreadsheet
Each team has two mods but there are options to add a third one everywhere. Those who modded in the last phase had an advantage, after that I went with people who chose the first answer in the modding poll. We have to have the same number of mods because of the bonus points and two seems enough from where I'm standing but if more than one team of mods tells me they'd like someone else, we can talk about it.
Speaking of modding, I didn't get around to delivering messages from the last phase, sorry, I'll get right on that!
Thanks for the feedback at the end of phase 3!
Couple of notes on things from the poll:
- Several people asked if it was possible to pay more attention to any potential procrastinators when scheduling deadlines for big challenges. Yes, it is! Last phase was a bit awkwardly organized because of the holiday season but hopefully this phase works better for you.
- Thanks for all the notes on gift-giving, keeping them in mind for the next time we do it! Whenever it happens, you'll just have to wait and see.
- The anon meme we included proved what we assumed but still wanted to check - it was a lovely experience but it wouldn't work in a meme form on its own because of its unevenness.
- Puzzleland seems to be a point of disagreement. While some people liked it because challenges were different & we had some less known puzzles, others felt that those unknown puzzles are too hard & time-consuming for the amount of points they are worth. I would be more inclined to go with the first group & keep doing them because skipping a challenge is always an option here and doing 3-4 things over and over can get boring but this phase brings something a little different to puzzleland overall so that will change anyway and for the future we'll consider something along the lines of different point amounts.
- Puzzleland is not the only place that will be a little different this phase. It's good to shake things up a bit every now and then & this phase we're focusing on teamwork a little more.